Sunday, November 23, 2008

Pondering the Get Over Its...

Let’s jump right in, shall we?

I was reading an article on the protests against Proposition 8 and several comments carried the “You lost – get over it!!” theme in support of Prop. 8.

I can’t even imagine the kind of life that lets a person think rights are decided like a hockey game tied after overtime. I’m thinking a person has to be pretty fucking blessed to feel comfortable with a winner takes all shoot-out. Shit, a bitch isn’t exactly comfortable with that solution during hockey games.

I mean, does that world view have limits?

Would the Get Over Its respond to everything that way?

I can just see them as characters in my new favorite television obsession, Battlestar Galactica.

“We’ve been invaded by Cylons! We lost - let's get over it!!”

Blink.

Anyhoo, this bitch suspects that these Get Over Its are also fans of gradualism. They probably think women would have gotten the vote…eventually. People of color would have gotten civil rights…simply with the passage of time. The Cylons would have come to regret their world domination and leave the humans alone…after a century or two.

Well, my people call that bullshit.

Patience ain’t a virtue in the struggle for equality and this bitch will not be getting over a motherfucking thing.

***logs off to begin marathon viewage of Battlestar Galactica Season Two***

I've said this a couple of times now, but there was a time when the majority of Americans thought it was perfectly fine to own another human being. "Get over it"? Thank heaven we "got over" the problem instead!

I have to be honest, I think they're just saying "Get over it" because they're scared and they know (and WE know, and EVERYONE knows) that they are going to be the ultimate "losers" of this "game" sooner or later. It's just a question of when, but they know time is on our side.

So I'm angry as hell, but I'm content to sit here for now with a smug sneer on my face, saying to myself, "Go ahead and laugh and gloat, motherfucker, cuz you and I both know it's a temporary victory."

Well, according to Mike Huckabee, we just need to suffer some more!!! I guess after a certain number of murders and/or injuries, LGBT people will magically be ready for those dang civil rights. I just wish Huckabee and the Get-Over-Its would tell us what the magic baseline is (567 murders?, 13.7 years?) so we could plan for a big ole party when we've met those requirements.

Frederick Douglass got it right: "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men [and women] who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters . . . . Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them . . . ."

Now far be it from me to be contrary (What? Oh hush, you), but when the Cylons decimated the Twelve Colonies, there was a point where Adama was gearing up to fight back and President Roslin said to him, "Commander, the war is over. We lost." Of course, that wasn't the end of the story, and in much the same way, this battle may be over, but as long as there are (metaphorical) bullets in the (purely hypothetical) gun, we'll keep blasting away at the (somewhat similar to Cylons) agents of injustice.

I think the religious extremists had this psychological expectation that if they passed enough ballot propositions, lesbian, gay, bi, and trans people would shut up and disappear. Just the opposite has happened.